Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden: How four presidents created today's Afghanistan mess

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How America spent 20 years in Afghanistan, only to have the Taliban resume control again as its troops withdrew, will be a topic for historians to ponder for decades. Here's how four presidents have approached what became America's longest war.

Implicit in that statement is the belief the war shouldn't have been passed to him, nearly 20 years after it began.Each president since 2001 has confronted an evolving mission in Afghanistan, one that resulted in tens of thousands American and Afghan casualties, frustratingly futile attempts to improve the country's political leadership and a Taliban that stubbornly refused defeat.

Shortly afterward, Obama announced he would begin bringing US troops home with a goal of handing off security responsibilities to the Afghans by 2014.Over the next years, troop levels declined steadily as the US engaged in fraught diplomacy with Afghanistan's leaders.

 

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the US hasn't won a war since WW2, but it keeps fucking up the world non-stop

USA:Let's run away first, we won't take you to play democracy😀

It's strange, but I somehow see myself in that line up on the right, in proper and natural succession. Another president; just like any of them.

Biden is USA's Gorbachev.

There was no will for enough of their people. As was evident in how fast the nation crumbled. 20 years of trying to force feed our point of view on them down the drain.

Now the situation that Pakistan's atomic bomb may go into the hands of Taliban 🤔

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I watched this which is from over a year ago and it's quite clear that Pres. Biden has made the right decision to leave!! TheDailyShow

Four international terrorist And enemy of Islam. World will never forget your faces.

American foreign policy maybe failed in Afghan. They could not wiped out the anti virus.....

No need historians to worry about. It's only a tradition skill for the USA 'democracy',Vietnam, Korea,South America Continent, Africa, you name it. Everywhere,every time,when USA force the people to accept democracy,it doesn't work. So, why try?

The solution really is (was) “International Relations 101” stuff, but when the leaders exercise politics instead of good judgement, catastrophe ensues.

It was Dick Cheney's war. Bush just read the speeches and posed for photo ops.

Can you also add to the discussion how the US destroyed Iraq for no reason and hand it over to Iran. Looks like the US is working for Iran and Taliban. Obama Syria

Bush is 80% of the problem

America’s longest war has been on its own people. Started with Calvary mowing down Natives then Blacks now it’s targeted mental health and hatred for all of us.

How about the part where they built a 300,000 troop military who quit...

Because none of them addressed the religious and cultural issue in the region. And no matter how much money you spend or how much 'democracy' you brought to them, they still live in the 632AD after the death of the Prophet.

Not really. Historians, political scientists, and basically all types of scholars of the region criticized the Afghan operation as doomed to fail once it became clear the Bush administration was just using it as a pretext to invade Iraq. This one is pretty cut and dry.

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